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Under a sunny sky for Saturday’s special town meeting, Westport Island voters agreed 79-1 to seek a ConnectME broadband infrastructure grant. Residents stood outside town hall for the vote that lets the Broadband and Cable Committee submit the grant.
Tue, 12/22/2020 - 8:45am
Which is the higher priority, a plowed fire station or plowed roads? Westport Island officials pondered that question in selectmen’s UberConference call Monday night. The question stemmed from the Dec. 17 snowstorm, when, according to officials, snow was falling at two to three inches an hour and the town’s plowing contractor, G & D Cromwell, had some equipment problems.
Second Selectman Gerald Bodmer said the fire department tends to all emergencies and should be the first priority to keep clear of snow. “It is critical to have that open.”
“Yeah, you really can’t do that,” Third Selectman Ross Norton said. He said the fire trucks can get out of the station in over a foot of snow, but the department and the island need the roads cleared.
SUSAN JOHNS Tue, 12/15/2020 - 7:30am
Westport Island selectmen said Monday night, a second-story, six-inch hole discovered on the north side of the town office turned out to be for a laundry vent. A part apparently fell from it, exposing the hole, selectmen said in the UberConference call. They said Gary Richardson will install a vent.
“That’s excellent. Good, because (the weather’s) going to blow in there this weekend,” Second Selectman Gerald Bodmer said.
“It probably could have been blowing in there over a year, because I don’t think anyone’s noticed it,” First Selectman George Richardson said of the hole, first discussed Dec. 7.